7) Install phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a free open-source web-based administration tool for managing the MySQL, MariaDB servers which will help us to manage the database easily.
[Install phpMyAdmin]
$ sudo pacman -S phpmyadmin
Just create symlink from /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin to /usr/share/nginx/html this will do the trick
[Create Symlink] $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin/ /usr/share/nginx/html/ [Restart Nginx service] $ sudo systemctl restart nginx.service [Restart php-fpm service] $ sudo systemctl restart php-fpm
Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/phpmyadmin or http://your-server-ip-address/phpmyadmin or http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin
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Just scroll down to bottom of the page, you may see the same error message which is showing on the above screen shot The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret). Why ? we are getting the error message, Due to empty password for blowfish_secret. So, just add the password to ride out the issue.
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Navigate to /etc/webapps/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php file and search the term (blowfish_secret) then add the password.
$ sudo nano /etc/webapps/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = '12345'; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH!$
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